Call for Submissions

We welcome submissions from EERA members on any topics, but here are some suggestions for blog posts that we think would interest our readers:

Network Topics

 

1. Professional Learning and Development

  • Finding a mentor
  • How workplace culture affects student learning
  • Effective ways to give feedback
  • Professional development – which kind of careers inside/outside academia and how to look for them
  • What to do when you can’t find a job once you’ve finished your PhD?

2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)

  • How to raise the perceived value of Vocational Education
  • Why (and when) students should choose Vocational Education rather than University

3. Curriculum Innovation

  • What’s next for Curriculum Innovation?

4. Inclusive Education

  • What does ‘inclusive innovation’ mean in your country?
  • How to ensure that online learning during the Corona crisis is inclusive?

5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education

  • What should policymakers be doing to prevent school dropouts?

6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures

  • How to support emerging researchers who might not be able to access an international community
  • Social justice in schools
  • Ways to connect scholarly work across continents
  • How to decolonize academia
  • Articles/introduction of educationists/philosophy that influences thinking in education

7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education

  • How to support emerging researchers who might not be able to access an international community
  • Social justice in schools
  • Ways to connect scholarly work across continents
  • How to decolonize academia
  • Articles/introduction of educationists/philosophy that influences thinking in education

8. Health and Wellbeing Education

  • The ‘Mile a Day’ Project – did it work?
  • Sex Ed and Parental Consent
  • Laying the groundwork for sound mental health

9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement

  • Assessment during COVID-19
  • How much testing is too much?
  • Testing and students with special needs
  • The effect of assessments on student mental health

10. Teacher Education Research

11. Educational Improvement and Quality Assurance

12. LISnet – Library and Information Science Network

13. Philosophy of Education

14. Communities, Families, and Schooling in Educational Research

  • The advantages of getting parents involved in schools
  • Why parents should get involved in schools

15. Research on Partnerships in Education

16. ICT in Education and Training

17. Histories of Education

18. Research in Sport Pedagogy

  • Girls and sport – keeping them engaged in teen years

19. Ethnography

20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments

  • Integration of refugees

22. Research in Higher Education

23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education

  • Governance in education – what constitutes effective governance and the outcomes that indicate effectiveness.

24. Mathematics Education Research

  • Dyscalculia – What can parents do to support their child?
  • Do maths training websites work?
  • How do other countries teach maths?

25. Research on Children’s Rights in Education

  • How to raise childrens’ voices

26. Educational Leadership

  • How to promote wellbeing among staff and children, including senior leaders.

27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching

28. Sociologies of Education

29. Research on Arts Education

  • The importance of arts in education
  • Why poetry should be taught in schools

30. Environmental and Sustainability Education Research, ESER

  • Dealing with climate deniers in the classroom

31. LEd – Network on Language and Education

  • Immigration and multilingualism
  • Why multilingualism should be seen as a benefit not a problem in education
  • OPOL – is it really the best method?
  • How subjects are taught in different languages and effect on cognitive development of learners

32. Organizational Education

33. Gender and Education

  • Going beyond the stereotypes of ‘girls are good at languages, boys are good at maths’
  • LGBT+ inclusion in learning environments
  • Gendered choices in education and professions
  • Gender in the curriculum
  • School uniform and gender – should schools ban trousers for girls?

General Topics for all Networks

COVID / Pandemic Topics

  • How to deal with online learning?
  • Distance learning in a COVID world. How to adapt to a ‘new normal’?
  • Online and remote learning – the affordance and influence of technology
  • Strategies for coping with COVID pandemic, dealing with repercussions (practical advice, support, exchange etc)
  • Different qualitative and quantitive data archives which would allow for qualitative research now that access to schools is difficult

Self-Improvement and Mental Health in Academia

  • Career development
  • Image and self-development
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Doing a PhD is a job
  • PhD and isolation/issues of precarity
  • Coping with failure
  • Coping with setbacks
  • What to do when your research doesn’t go to plan
  • Coping with criticism and negative feedback
  • Hands-on experience of doing research, particularly unsuccessful research – and how to move forward from this

Practical Advice for Emerging Researchers

  • Best practice for research opportunities/experiences
  • How to apply to open Post-Doc positions around the EU and beyond
  • Emerging Methodologies
  • Science writing and publishing in good journals
  • Open Access Publishing – quality and concerns
    • How to identify journals for publication
  • How to be discerning when selecting a journal. Which to target, and which to avoid?
  • Tips from experienced researchers for new PhD students on what would be useful to think about in early stages of the PhD
  • Realities of academic life – how long does publishing really take?
  • What are reviewers looking for?

New ideas in Educational Research

  • Research processes/practicalities
  • Methodological ideas
  • Approach to ethics

ERG and EERA

  • How to prepare for your first ERG conference?